We travelled to Magny Cours wishing to improve like every round. On Thursday I was on a trackwalk with Jeremy McWilliams which was a big help for all of the weekend. I had never driven in Magny Cours before so first half of the free practise was all for learning the track. I liked the track really much and by the end of the practise I found the speed to post second fastest time of the practise. Qualifying was wet for us and as I haven't had many time on wet tyres I was a bit afraid of it. That wasn't too bad actually and I was posting top ten times all the time before the red flag came out. That was not good for me as I was on a fast lap but 9. on the grid was okay. Race started good for but soon the Finnish wild card had a technical error when going out of the corner and I lost a lot of time there. First group was gone so I had to do my best to be first in the second group. On the fifth lap there was a red flag and because we had less than half of race distance done there was a restart after second race of Superbike. Before the second start there were spots of rain on the track so we had to decide which tyre to use. Because there was only some spots my team and I decided to go with the dry tyres. The track was dry so it was a right choice. Start went good and soon I was running second and third. Sebestyen was a little bit away from us so me and Fernandez started to chase him. To the last lap there was a group from 1. to 4. place where I was third. I had a plan to attack in the last corner but when I went into the second last corner somebody hit me from the back and I crashed badly. I broke my tibia from two places and fibula from one. The season is over for me which is really disappointing because I saw in Magny Cours that I can fight for the win and try to win in Jerez but now I don't have the opportunity.
The doctor said that I need 6 weeks plasters. After that I start to prepare for next season. I like to thank my sponsors and the EJC people for a really nice season and hope to see you again next year.
Sommu #38
Race pics coming soon.
Tv program from the race: http://www.2wheelstv.com/tv-channel/watch/2013~2wheelstv-features~ejc~round-7~full-program
